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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27388	Soul-prosperity in several sermons / by that eminent servant of Christ, Mr. William Benn ...	Benn, William, 1600-1680.	1683 (1683)	Wing B1880; ESTC R17736	149,651	336

things that are nourishing to the Body Isa 55.2 3 Wherefore do ye spend your Money for that which is not Bread c. The word is compared to Honey Psal 119.103 How sweet are thy words to my taste yea sweeter then honey to my mouth and preferred before it Solomon saith Prov. 24.13 My Son eat thou honey because it is good and the honey-comb which is sweet to thy taste And it is found by experience that Honey is good and the Honey-comb is sweet to the taste But the word is sweeter then the Honey which of its own accord drops from the Honey-comb without any pressing which is reckoned the sweetest of all What is particularly is said of the Promises in a sense is true of all the Ordinances Isa 38.16 In these things we live in them is the life of our Spirits The whole word is said to be The word of life Act. 5.20 Thus the Lord feeds the Soul according to that promise Isa 58.14 I will feed them with the heritage of Jacob their Father What was that It was the good things of the Land of Canaan but not with them alone but with that whereof they were a Type the Heavenly inheritance together with all things relating thereunto the Promises not only of this life but also of the life to come They were part of Jacob's heritage Psal 147.19 20 He shewed his word unto Jacob his statutes and his ordinances unto Israel c. This is one way whereby food for the Soul is conveyed from Christ Therefore it is that Pastors in their administrations are said To feed the Church It is upon that account that they are called Pastors Jer. 3.15 Act. 20.28 But this is only so far as they are sprinkled with the blood of Christ Otherwise as there is a vanity in the Creatures when God withdraws himself from them so there is in Ordinances Isa 1.13 Bring no more vain oblations As the merits of Christ purchase our Spiritual life so they purchase a blessing upon that food which is for nourishment of it Rebecca may dress the Venison but Isaac gives the blessing So it is here Exod. 20.24 In all places where I record my Name I will come unto thee and bless thee Gal. 2.8 He that wrought effectually in Peter to the Apostleship of the Circumcision the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles 2. As in all his Ordinances so in all his Providences when sprinkled with the blood of Christ there is likewise meat laid before us even in every one of them of what sort soever Observable to this purpose is that which we have Joh. 10.9 They shall go in and out and find pasture Going in and out according to Scripture expression set forth all the turnings and various passages of a Man's life So we understand that promise Deut. 28.6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out Which is renewed again Psal 121.8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in There is good feeding to be had in all these even where it might be least looked for Mic. 7.14 God promiseth That he will feed the flock of his heritage with his rod. This is hard feeding but blessed be the Lord it hath proved and will prove again good and wholesome nourishment when sprinkled with the blood of Christ for thereby he hath purchased a fruitful and sanctified use of the Rod. Christ being a Mediatour in reference to the rod as well as in reference to the word when it is so then dark and cloudy Providences falling down in showers which as we say wet a Man to the skin nay even reach the very heart coming near unto it and cutting deep into it yet they drop fatness and though they make the way foul yet they make the Land fruitful Heb. 12.10 God chastens us for our profit that we may be partakers of his holiness Then meat is found in the eater comfortable nourishment in the cross when we can say as Psal 23 4 thy rod and thy staff comfort me 3. As both in Providences and Ordinances thus sprinkled nourishment is conveyed to the Soul So the Soul that receives this nourishment must be sprinkled with the same blood There must be as Heb. 12 23. a coming to the blood of sprinkling in the exercise of Faith for thereby it is that food or vertue to feed is distributed into them all and so conveyed unto the Soul Even as the Root of the Tree draws sap from the Earth and then concocts it and sends it forth to all the boughs and branches which if they receive not they wither so it is here It is not any one Providence or Ordinance no if we take them all in conjunction together that either in whole or in part convey any nourishment to the Soul but as sprinkled with the blood of Christ and made use of as subordinate means in his hands and as made effectual by the exercise of Faith drawing in all our expectations of any Spiritual nourishment from any of these into Christ alone 1 Cor. 10.4 They all drank the same Spiritual drink for they drank of that Spiritual Rock that followed them and that Rock was Christ They did all eat the same meat Some had the food but not the nourishment they had not this sprinkling for ver 5 With many of them God was not well pleased So it may be with any of us at this day Though we have cause with all thankfulness to acknowledge as David did in another case Psal 23.5 Thou preparest a Table before me in the presence of mine enemies To their great grief and vexation who thought they had shut the Door so as no Man should have opened it but God hath opened it so as none of them can as yet shut it so that we are not scanted in provision for our Souls yet as Pharaoh's lean Kine did not prosper ever the better for their feeding in a Meadow and eating up the fat Kine Even so will it be with our Souls unless we feed upon Christ In the use of Pasture and all other means of feeding they will still be lean and ill-favoured So that if we were sensible of it we should see cause to complain as Isaiah doth My leanness my leanness Isa 24.16 God will deal with us as he did with them when he gave them the food they lusted after though they had it yet he sent leanness into their Souls Instead of nourishing them a deadly consumption came along with it as Num. 11.33 Pray that we may be delivered from this Judgment that we may not as it is said in our common Proverb starve in a Cook 's shop And this leads me to the 3. Third Particular What arguments are there to quicken our Spiritual appetite to this food Of many that might be given I shall only mention these three 1. This is food that may easily be compassed Many are put hard to it for a subsistence for